Cinema of the Czech Republic

Czech cinema comprises the cinema of Czech Republic as well as cinema while this country was a part of other countries.

Cinema of the Czech Republic
Kino Světozor in Prague
No. of screens668 (2011)
  Per capita6.9 per 100,000 (2011)
Main distributorsBontonfilm 34.0%
Falcon 31.0%
Warner Bros. 14.0%
Produced feature films (2011)
Fictional23 (51.1%)
Animated2 (4.4%)
Documentary20 (44.4%)
Number of admissions (2011)
Total10,789,760
  Per capita1.06 (2012)
National films3,077,585 (28.5%)
Gross box office (2011)
TotalCZK 1.21 billion
National filmsCZK 301 million (24.9%)

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne is considered the most internationally successful Czech film ever made; soon after its release it was distributed to 72 countries and received widespread attention. Domestically, the most viewed Czech film ever is The Proud Princess from 1952, which was seen by 8,222,695 people.

Marketa Lazarová was voted the all-time best Czech movie in a 1998 poll of Czech film critics and publicists.

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